Artwork
Small, Circular, Covered Box, the Domed Cover with Decoration of a Butterfly
Sign in to saveprobably 9th century — Off-white stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration applied in white slip, the decoration embellished with incising and with touches of iron-brown slip in localized areas. Possibly from the Yaozhou kilns, near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
Artwork · Harvard Art Museums
Boxes- Date
- probably 9th century
- Culture
- Chinese
- Period
- Tang dynasty, 618-907
- Medium
- Off-white stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration applied in white slip, the decoration embellished with incising and with touches of iron-brown slip in localized areas. Possibly from the Yaozhou kilns, near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.
- Dimensions
- including cover: H. 3.4 x Diam. 5 cm (1 5/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
- Department
- Department of Asian Art
- Credit
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, David Berg, Esq., Fund and Louis Sidney Thierry Memorial Fund